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Show Fashion Sprays. Etiquette no longer demands that the host and hostess receive together. Square India shawls are folded into narrow scarfs [scarves] and worn on the shoulders. Inside slippers of perforated chamois skin, to be worn within the shoe, are a comfort for cold feet. Invitations for dinner are now printed on Chinese paper and enclosed in gay-looking envelopes. The latest decoration for table linen is the monogram of the mistress of the house embroidered in flowers. Adjustable book covers in all sizes have been issued by a book firm. They are prettily ornamented and of good material. Bright colored magenta roses, branched with tea or cloth-of-gold roses, are worn with black satin and velvet dresses. Full dress boots are either of black satin, French kid or of the dress material and are made with box toes and Louis XV. heels. A dress of black gauze worn over black satin and profusely trimmed with jet and small sunflowers is considered especially elegant. For little boys and girls white lace collars, embroidered with pearls, and showing pendants at the front, are designed for housewear. Dolmans are made of India shawls, with linings of red or green silk, and fringes and passementeries? of the varied colors of the fabric itself. Broad girdle belts are made of strips of Japanese and Chinese cloth, and are embroidered and stamped with hideous dragons and impossible birds. Plant screens are made to fit in fireplaces or to stand in the room. Moss is the background, form which grow ferns, bines and suitable plants. Marquise rings, to be worn on the middle finger, have the oval or oblong setting of precious stones, a cameo, an intaglio, or an enameled picture. Colored stones are rapidly gaining the favor here that they have in Europe. The sapphire, turquoise, opal, cameo and sardonyx are again popular. The newest jet buttons for velvet coats are large, smooth polished ones, and are sewed on through two gold-rimmed eyes that ornament the center. The open worked galloons, richly worked, and imitating cathedral fretwork, are very expensive, but add to the value of a toilet as much as real paint. The newest bangle rings have several hoops of alternate plain and twisted gold wire, held together by a bar set with small turquoise, pearls or diamonds. One hundred years ago a New York hair-dresser advertised hairpins from two to fifteen inches long, and now nobody needs hairpins of half that length. |